Fergal O'Hanlon

Fergal O'Hanlon (2 February 1936-1 January 1957) was an Irish Republican Army volunteer who, along with Sean South, was killed in a 1957 raid on a Royal Ulster Constabulary barracks in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.

Biography
Fergal O'Hanlon was born on 2 February 1936 in Ballybay, County Monaghan, Ireland into a staunchly Irish republican family. O'Hanlon was a soccer player and Irish language activist, and he joined the Irish Republican Army during the "border campaign" against the British Army in Northern Ireland in the late 1950s. On 1 January 1957, O'Hanlon and Sean South were killed in a raid on a Royal Ulster Constabulary barracks in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, and his mother believed that he was an Irish hero.